Chevron over Bradenton, FL
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
3/30/2020 Early Monday morning at 2:30 AM, 3/30/2020, I woke up and I decided to step outside to let the cat out. As I stood in the back yard, facing south towards Sarasota, I saw a flying craft that was shaped like a boomerang. The front edge was visible, lit up sort of like headlights on the front of a car. It was completely silent, I could hear crickets and the neighbor's air conditioner. It was flying north and passed almost directly over my head, and moving fast towards Tampa. At the speed it was moving it would have crossed the entire Tampa Bay in moments. I lost sight of it because there are some big trees around the house which blocked the view. My best guess: it was maybe about as big as a passenger jet, but flying low, maybe only as high up as what a Cessna airplane might normally fly. And it was come and gone in 3 seconds.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #154648). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2020-03-27 → 2020-04-13
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